Here's the big guy, back in the old days when he had time for things like Harleys.

Even pulling the vegan card won’t work.

You still can head to food-cart-turned-restaurant Biker Jim’s Gourmet Dogs on Sunday to slap Jim Pittenger on the back (but be careful — he’s fragile), drink a free beer, inhale one of his killer vegan dogs (instead of one of his pheasant, reindeer, boar, or other variations on a theme of meat-gone-wild sausages) and celebrate the restaurant’s one-year anniversary.

“We got kegs from Great Divide, and we’ll be giving away beer with the right password. Like maybe, `I like beer with my wieners.’ But `Gimme a free beer’ probably works,” said Jim. “We’re going to have nitrogen cocktails, nitrogen desserts. We will crank the music and tell stupid jokes. We’ll even take the dramatic step of rolling back our prices to, yep, 2011 prices.”

Have you been to the Kitchen in Boulder? If so, you're probably psyched for the opening of The Kitchen Denver.

Our friends over at The Denver Post’s beer blog, First Drafts, checked in this morning with some insight on The Kitchen Denver, the much- anticipated LoDo version of a popular Boulder restaurant — and one that’s less than a week out from its debut.